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The Reformation · 1535
The Coverdale Bible
Miles Coverdale · 1488–1569
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What it is
The first complete printed English Bible, made from Latin and German rather than the original tongues by a translator who admitted he knew neither well.
Why it lasted
Its psalter, carried into the Book of Common Prayer, is the version English congregations sang for four hundred years.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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